From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu May  6 13:59:21 1999
Subject: segmentation fault
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Daniel A. Powers" <dpowers at mail dot la dot utexas dot edu>
Cc: octave list <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 13:58:22 -0500 (CDT)

On  6-May-1999, Daniel A. Powers <dpowers at mail dot la dot utexas dot edu> wrote:

| After installing Octave 2.0.13 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) (getting new libc
| stuff), I get
| 
| error: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself
| error: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting..
| Aborted (core dumped) 
| 
| Any tips?

Just about all I know about problems like this is described in the
file README.Linux that's distributed with Octave.

What do you mean by `new libc stuff'?

Did you build Octave yourself or try to install binaries from
somewhere?

Is this a new Red Hat system that has gcc 2.7.2 as the default C
compiler but uses the egcs C++ compiler?  If so, you'll need to use
the egcs C compiler too.  Using --with-cc=egcs as an argument for
configure works, I think.

jwe